Am STILL waiting for scientists to create a full-length nature documentary about Purussaurus. In ALL the documentaries they've made about prehistoric crocodilians I've seen so far, Purussaurus has only been mentioned once or twice, and only in PASSING. That is a SEVERE injustice for such an iconic predator, and it needs to be rectified IMMEDIATELY.
In the early '90s, I was on an expedition in the Amazonas Basin of South Venezuela, Eastern waters of the great Orinoco River. In our 14 ft (Bongo) wooden canoes, we traversed many small back bays and saw quite a few Caiman, usually sunning themselves on shorelines. I had a Super 8 small video camera with me and got some good footage of some of these impressive reptiles, the largest perhaps approx 10 ft. I was caught totally unprepared however, when, whilst my friend, myself and our native guide were just drifting, scanning the shore, an absolutely monstrous Caiman quietly surfaced directly beside our canoe. As I said, our canoe was 14 ft long, this beast was longer! I sat there, stunned in disbelief, terrified to make any sudden moves, though if I had stretched out my arm, it was close enough to touch it. I gently called out for my friend's attention and when he looked back and saw it, he gasped with a quick tirade of expletives and pleaded for me to get the camera, which was in my pack at my feet. By the time I reached into the bag however, the Caiman submerged and was gone. Our guide suggested we paddle a distance away and gather on shore, which we slowly did, trying not to disturb the waters. We had a good lunch that day, with a lot of nervous scans of the shorelines with and without binoculars. We had many exciting days during that adventure but yeah, that was probably the scariest, due to how close we had been to such an amazing creature!
Definitely one of my favorite aspects of this creature is that robust and broad skull. You don't need to be a paleontology expert to know it was adapted for Crushing and holding prey
Crocodilians are my favorite modern animals, so I love learning about their ancient kin. So, if you haven't already, please do Barinasuchus or any other Sebicid.
Purussaurus is, hands down, the most awesome & scary! Deinosuchus would have been when I was younger, before I heard of big P. It's also shocking, in that it's of OUR time, not distantly dead ages. The insane power of it's bite is obvious in the ludicrous skull. I like them all of course, and Alligator cousin Deinosuchus is really cool as well, so it's almost close, but not really. Crocodilians like Purussaurus and Barinasuchus, as well as some reptiles (Titanaboa, Stupendemys), down in south america put the lie to the notion "age of mammals", or at least held off the title shift or challenge it.
As a younger man I used to enjoy Wrestling Gators & help relocate problem Wild Childs to an area they can call their own, in my short young career I never met an animal that was too big, although there were a couple we wrangled with that if we had not just come from a Football Game about half $hit-Faced we might have reconsidered, fortunately we prevailed & wasn't long after my life took a different direction, my first 45 years was all directions all the time. I can more than imagine that 01:00 AM call from a friends Mom screaming a big Gator was on her back porch & trying to get in. Gators by their very nature even small ones can look big, so when the Average Ethel says it's big I'm usually not too worried, except this time this Big Fellow is waiting for us! UGG Not Me Man, you've confused me for someone that's Smart, Nope, I-B-A Neanderthal, sorry Man
OH, where's my manners, I get sidetracked a lot, This is one of my more favorable sites, you (or Someone does) takes time to do a correct job & the Quality shows, specially if you just came from a site that's has the label "Clyde Devins World of Really Messed Up Critters", thanks to folks like yourself I don't have to suffer these A$$-Hat Clowns telling me stuff that's Physically Imposible
When I saw a 16' crocodile in Asia I thought it was huge. I can only imagine a 30' crocodilian!
It was closer to 36 feet than 30 due to how low the 23-33 feet max size estimate don't make much sense
It's absolutely crazy how miocene south america had both the largest land crocs and largest semi aquatic crocs coexisting
Crocodilians crocodile are one of the animal that came under crocodilian family..
Am STILL waiting for scientists to create a full-length nature documentary about Purussaurus. In ALL the documentaries they've made about prehistoric crocodilians I've seen so far, Purussaurus has only been mentioned once or twice, and only in PASSING. That is a SEVERE injustice for such an iconic predator, and it needs to be rectified IMMEDIATELY.
In the early '90s, I was on an expedition in the Amazonas Basin of South Venezuela, Eastern waters of the great Orinoco River. In our 14 ft (Bongo) wooden canoes, we traversed many small back bays and saw quite a few Caiman, usually sunning themselves on shorelines. I had a Super 8 small video camera with me and got some good footage of some of these impressive reptiles, the largest perhaps approx 10 ft. I was caught totally unprepared however, when, whilst my friend, myself and our native guide were just drifting, scanning the shore, an absolutely monstrous Caiman quietly surfaced directly beside our canoe. As I said, our canoe was 14 ft long, this beast was longer!
I sat there, stunned in disbelief, terrified to make any sudden moves, though if I had stretched out my arm, it was close enough to touch it. I gently called out for my friend's attention and when he looked back and saw it, he gasped with a quick tirade of expletives and pleaded for me to get the camera, which was in my pack at my feet.
By the time I reached into the bag however, the Caiman submerged and was gone. Our guide suggested we paddle a distance away and gather on shore, which we slowly did, trying not to disturb the waters. We had a good lunch that day, with a lot of nervous scans of the shorelines with and without binoculars.
We had many exciting days during that adventure but yeah, that was probably the scariest, due to how close we had been to such an amazing creature!
Well...this is one caiman that a jaguar can't deal with....
Or the black caiman today
Your story had me feeling like i was under the water with the dolphin.
Definitely one of my favorite aspects of this creature is that robust and broad skull. You don't need to be a paleontology expert to know it was adapted for Crushing and holding prey
By far the largest known reptile since the extinction of the non avian dinosaurs. A terrifying creature
Crocodilians are my favorite modern animals, so I love learning about their ancient kin. So, if you haven't already, please do Barinasuchus or any other Sebicid.
You're in luck as I have done Barinasuchus, its one of my older videos.
@@raptorrex3954 Cool! What about Arizonasaurus?
I have been waiting for this video for a while and it was worth it. hope to see more of South America during its time as an island continent.
Do a video on Deinosuchus
I had heard of this animal, but really didn’t know much about it. I had no idea it was this big.
Purussaurus is, hands down, the most awesome & scary! Deinosuchus would have been when I was younger, before I heard of big P. It's also shocking, in that it's of OUR time, not distantly dead ages. The insane power of it's bite is obvious in the ludicrous skull. I like them all of course, and Alligator cousin Deinosuchus is really cool as well, so it's almost close, but not really. Crocodilians like Purussaurus and Barinasuchus, as well as some reptiles (Titanaboa, Stupendemys), down in south america put the lie to the notion "age of mammals", or at least held off the title shift or challenge it.
8:19 i'd say the maximum possible size for this Caimen is 12.2 meters for the largest individuals of the species
As a younger man I used to enjoy Wrestling Gators & help relocate problem Wild Childs to an area they can call their own, in my short young career I never met an animal that was too big, although there were a couple we wrangled with that if we had not just come from a Football Game about half $hit-Faced we might have reconsidered, fortunately we prevailed & wasn't long after my life took a different direction, my first 45 years was all directions all the time. I can more than imagine that 01:00 AM call from a friends Mom screaming a big Gator was on her back porch & trying to get in. Gators by their very nature even small ones can look big, so when the Average Ethel says it's big I'm usually not too worried, except this time this Big Fellow is waiting for us! UGG Not Me Man, you've confused me for someone that's Smart, Nope, I-B-A Neanderthal, sorry Man
10 million years ago. Im glad I wasn't around then. 😮
I’m sure this is a popular pick but do you think you could do Kaprosuchus next?
i'd love to see kentrosaurus
Purussaurus was actually about 10 to 12 meters long
Can you please do a breakdown on brachiosaurus?
Do an Azhdarchid, maybe Zhegiiangosaurus
3:49 "domain"
nice
"Serrated teeth", no, Purussaurus teeth are NOT serrated.
It is Josephoartigasia not josephoantasia
Do australopithecus
I'M Purussaurus
Big fan.
Me watching these so I can play path of titans better
OH, where's my manners, I get sidetracked a lot, This is one of my more favorable sites, you (or Someone does) takes time to do a correct job & the Quality shows, specially if you just came from a site that's has the label "Clyde Devins World of Really Messed Up Critters", thanks to folks like yourself I don't have to suffer these A$$-Hat Clowns telling me stuff that's Physically Imposible
Looks like a Flintstones Dino-Caiman.